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I don’t run screaming out of theaters often, but ‘The Zone of Interest’ got me there
The Zone of Interest is a soul-shaking historical document, closer to a docudrama or recreation than a traditional film. Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Nazi-occupied Poland, summer, 1943- Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife, Hedwig (Christian Friedel and … Continue reading
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Tagged Johnnie Burn, Jonathan Glazer, Schindler's List, The Zone of Interest
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Simulacra, simulation, ‘Mean Girls’
Mean Girls (Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr, 2024) is an adaptation of a Broadway musical that was itself an adaptation of the iconic 2004 film Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004), and it’s exactly what it looks like. North Shore … Continue reading
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Tagged Hamlet, La La Land, Mean Girls, Paramount Pictures, Simulacra and Simulation, Tina Fey
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‘Foreign Correspondent,’ live from Washington
Alex Garland’s Civil War is a pulse-pounding, eye-popping masterpiece from start to finish. The Londoner has seen this country’s heart, which is not difficult right now from that distance, and brought it to screen in such accuracy that many Americans … Continue reading
Making kayfabe the villain in ‘The Iron Claw’
Denton, Texas- In the 1950s, professional wrestler Jack Adkisson incorporates his grandmother’s maiden name to develop a Nazi-themed “heel” character, Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany), and all of his sons and grandsons who follow in his footsteps adopt the Von … Continue reading
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Tagged A24, Holt McCallany, Kayfabe, Sean Durkin, The Iron Claw, Zac Efron
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A lazy destination movie, a glorious throwback to the mid-00s
Anyone but You, writer/director/producer Will Gluck’s crappy modernization of “Much Ado About Nothing” that fervently insists the mid ‘00s never ended, we just got smartphones, was so successful during its first run that Sony pushed out a Feb. 9 re-release … Continue reading
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Tagged Anyone but You, Glen Powell, Much Ado About Nothing, Sony, Sydney Sweeney
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